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Between the ages of seven and seventeen, when I reverently kissed my grandmother’s hand on important holidays, she would always hand me a fresh ten-lira note. On it were depicted Atatürk, the crescent and the star, and various other symbols of state sovereignty, which made me think early on that things like family, belonging, and love are not far removed from concepts like subjugation, power, and money.

From the book “The Consolation of Objects“:

The all-too-familiar faces of The Money Changer and His Wife did not need to be in “my work”; what was more important to me were the tools used for weighing, the gold coins, the ledgers, the books, the jewelry, the tablecloth. To the diorama I have added mementos of how I was gently introduced to economics in my childhood, namely with coins like the ones my grandmother gave me after we kissed her hand on holidays, out-of-circulation coins with a hole in the middle like the ones my grandmother and her friends used when playing cards, and play money like the ones used on New Year’s Eve when playing bingo. (I went into more detail about playing bingo in one of the Museum of Innocence boxes not on display here).

Later, standing in front of Matsy’s original in the Louvre in May 2023, I noticed that the convex mirror on it had been erased in Reymerswaele’s painting. I wonder why.